A Hierarchical Algorithm for MR Brain Image Parcellation

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1201-1212

  Pohl, Kilian M ^b,c   Bouix, Sylvain ^a,b,d   Nakamura, Motoaki ^b,d   Rohlfing, Torsten ^a,e   McCarley, Robert W ^e   Kikinis, Ron ^b   Grimson, W Eric L ^a,c   Shenton, Martha E ^b,d   Wells, William M ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic segmentation; Data tree; Expectation maximization; MRI; Panellation; Statistical group comparison study

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION; DATA TREES; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION; STATISTICAL GROUP COMPARISON STUDY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

AFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AFFECTIVE DISORDERS, PSYCHOTIC; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34548473876     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2007.901433     Document Type: Article

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